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Morphometric studies on synapses of the cerebellar glomerulus: the effect of centrophenoxine treatment in old rats.

Young, adult and old female Wistar rats (3, 18 and 28 months of age, respectively), were studied using electron-microscopic stereology. Synaptic parameters of the cerebellar glomerulus were calculated and compared with similar data obtained from old Wistar rats of the same breed treated with centrophenoxine ( CPH; HelferginR, Promonta, Hamburg) in the form of intraperitoneal injections (100 mg/kg body weight) for 40 days. This treatment resulted in a sort of "rejuvenation" of synaptic structures. Namely, the surface density and the total length of synaptic contact zones were markedly reduced in the untreated old group, but in the treated animals these parameters returned to the values found in the young and adult animals. At the same time the numerical density of synapses remained unaltered in the treated group, while the average synaptic length displayed some further increase. The results are interpreted in terms of the age-dependent decrease in reactive synaptogenesis, suggesting that CPH stimulates the metabolism of the nervous elements persisting in old brain. The possible mechanism of CPH effect is also discussed.[1]

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